Shades of Georgette Heyer mixed up with a bit of Far Eastern travel!
A story involving a young girl, brought up by her father in a very unconventional style (for the time). Living her life in archaelogical ruins and coming to London as they are dead broke and he must find a financier for his next trip to discover the temple ruins which beckon so enticingly. Linley knows that her duty is to help her father obtain those finances by hook or by crook and to this end she goes along with his plans in London.
Meeting up with a Marquess seems fortuitous but things are not what they seem as he is not as well heeled as he sounds. His main idea was to find an heiress and marry her to bolster the family fortunes. Meeting Linley puts a spoke in the wheel in that scheme of things!
Covering London with all its conventionality at the times, and then moving across to Northern India almost at the Nepalese border was descriptive enough for me.
I did not like the title though as I felt it was not apt for the very lovely story it covered.
The book was a free download from Amazon
This sounds very interesting
ReplyDeleteThis sounds nice. The cover isn't too bad.
ReplyDeleteSounds great - Your first line captured me. I would love a Georgette Heyer type novel with far Eastern travel. I've just put this on my to read list!
ReplyDeleteI don't care for the title either but, definitely sounds like a good story.
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds good and the cover is lovely.
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